LinkedIn's new redesigned homepage with Status
On many past occasions I've blogged about incremental changes being made to the LinkedIn homepage design, so I'm really glad to announce the complete redesign of the LinkedIn homepage and am going to to walk you through some of those changes in a demo that you can find below. Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section of this blog post.
As I described in the demo, there are three parts to the homepage redesign:
1. System of Navigation
We've gradually transitioned away from a system of tabs to one of drop-down menus. Check out the horizontal top bar which exemplifies this the best. We've also created a consistent personal navigation bar vertically, which you use to manage the various elements of your professional network.
2. Profile Snapshot (with Status)
This component can be found right below the vertical personal navigation bar on the left. What this allows you to do is figure out how exactly you are presenting your professional identity, how up-to-date and accurate the information is and basically how complete your LinkedIn network is. This profile snapshot also contains the new Status feature that Chris demos here.
3. Customizable widgets panel
In addition to the above enhancements, LinkedIn's redesigned home page includes several customizable modules that I've hinted at in prior blog posts. Currently there are three light-weight applications that allow you to more fully leverage the collective wisdom of your professional network. Stay tuned for more.
- The Answers module showcases what questions your network is asking, so that you can directly contribute to the network's knowledge and perhaps ask a question yourself.
- The People module showcases the contacts you can make through your network (by using the connections of your connections).
- The Jobs module showcases the jobs and opportunities your network can help you with.
And, finally you'll notice that we've pushed out the navigation style across the length and breadth of LinkedIn so now there's a consistent look-and-feel as you traverse our site. Check out how the LinkedIn Groups page looks on LinkedIn currently.
Feel free to send us your feedback both through the feedback links that you can find on every page or leave a comment on this blog post.
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Blooper Reel: Those of you watching the video demo above may have noticed cameos from Adam, Minna and Ace as they walked past our conference room, but if you're a fan of the "World's Funniest Office Videos", check out the outtakes from my demo, taken at my expense. (Courtesy: Mario and Rob. Thanks, guys!)
Jasper de Valk Feb 28, 2008
I like the new customizable widgets panel! Why not make 'network updates', 'just joined LinkedIn' and 'news' also customizable widgets? Because I'm a lot more interested in my network updates & the new people on LinkedIn than in the news. I would like to remove the news widget and put the new people widget on top...
Carmelo Cutuli Feb 28, 2008
Dear Elliot,
First of all, I have tell that I've found the new look very close to Facebook.
Now I'm training myself to get used with the new interface ... cause I have all my thing out of place now :(
As you could notice, I'm Linkediner nr. 67462 in the world and one of the firsts in Italy, joining in 2003.
I was shocked by the new interface cause I was addicted to former layout for 4 years as I was shocked by the new layout of Office 2007 ... I'm still using Word 2003.
So ... Is it possible to have for some time to come (3 or 4 months) the choice to switch on and off the new interface.
Plaxo did ... oops pardon :)
Carmelo Cutuli
Technomanager
www.cutuli.it
Michael Junge Feb 28, 2008
Love it! Excellent design. Congratulations!
Paul Feb 28, 2008
What if you don't care about "company news"? That's not important to me - what I care about is changes in my network, who has added connnections, who has viewed my profile, who has changed jobs, etc. Now that information has been pushed down the page to bring me news about a company I haven't worked at in 11 years. If you are going to introduce features like this, you should allow users to minimize them or eliminate them altogether.
Bob Garrett Feb 28, 2008
Elliott
Nice job on Youtube this morning. As a former Product Manager with a large company, I can understand the challenges that you have.
I have 2 comments
First - your site is slow to load. I have been involved in other large (5000 concurrent users) solutions and we always shrived for a sub second response from click to presentation. To me, (maybe because I had the VP of Marketing hitting me on my head for it) this is very important. If you have to wait for longer than a second, I start to question, why and I using this solution and more importantly when are they going to change it.
In an ECommerce provider, if you have to wait for more than a second, I am gone to the next company that has a better and faster solution. I'd recommend that Linkedin resolve or speed up your click to presentation functionality.
Second - I found that the new navigation was confusing. I am on Linkedin for a few hours a day and have gotten very used to where and how it functioned. So my first reaction was confusion. I would like to revisit this after a few days or week.
Overall you have done a great job.
I would welcome an opportunity to connect to your group. I have a few other members of the Linkedin team in my group.
Thanks again
Rocky VanBrimmer Feb 28, 2008
You mention that it is easy to see your network stats. I like the button on the left, however when I click it. I see nothing except
"To get the full power of LinkedIn, invite your friends and colleagues to join your network. Those friends and colleagues can introduce you to thousands of professionals."
There are no stats and it has been like this for over a month and a half.
Jeff Chasin Feb 28, 2008
I like the customization of Network Updates. Is there any way you could add that same level of customization to the Notifying My Connections section? It would be very nice if we could control what information gets sent out to our network with the same choices as what we receive.
For example, if you change your picture three times in a week, your network will get three New Picture updates. It would be nice to have more control over what update information gets sent out to our networks.
And, please definitely add more YouTube instructional videos - good stuff!
Laura Feb 28, 2008
I'm with Paul -- why lead with "Company News" -- from a company I worked with 8 years ago? It's not relevant.
How do I turn that feature off -- or relegate it to a bottom position where I can ignore it?
Cathy Lamberth Feb 28, 2008
This a great interface change. You all continue to great work and I appreciate the value of LinkedIn. Thanks
Bart Feb 28, 2008
Hi Elliot,
Some surfing brought me here to your blog, which I appreciate. Nice face lift of the LinkedIn homepage! The layout is better once you get used to the changes. The widgets are nice, I love the customisable features! The menu left is also more up to date. Good, keep on going!
One small remark I will send you by mail. I guess you know what about. ;-)
Kind regards,
Bart
www.actonomy.com
Intelligent Search & Fuzzy Matching engines
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Pierre Feb 28, 2008
I think it looks good! Get you more feedback as I get into details.
PS: How about blogging options on the site?
jim young Feb 28, 2008
Looks very similar to Facebook, Paliox. I'm an early adopter and adjust to positive change well. This is cool, like standardizing on the ATM/Debit functions when go shopping. Now that would be cool!!
Vince Turk Feb 28, 2008
Im a big fan of the new design, especially the widgets sidebar. Would it be possible to allow users to embed their own widgets, from popular widget providers so that we are not tied directly to LinkedIn only widgets?
This would be similar to having your own blog in wordpress and just installing widgets from wherever you find them.
Most widgets have a straight-forward integrating of just copying a few lines of code and pasting into your blog/facebook/myspace,etc.
Thoughts?
Kevin Wright Feb 28, 2008
I like the design. I don't know if anyone else is seeing the same issue I have, but on the "Profile Snapshot (with Status)" element, I only see the people who have view my profile. I see not connection stats at all. They were there yesterday! Also, I am unable to load the Widgets. Nothing happens.
I am not sure if this is me, a firewall/cookie/spyware interaction issue or not.
Any clues?
Stefan Pettersson Feb 28, 2008
Please make it possible to get rid of the news section on the top of the home page.
I'm totally uninterested in news about a company I worked at 10 years ago!
nicelogo.com Feb 28, 2008
Nice addition I guess. When will we see mailing address for our contacts? Does anyone want you to email them anymore? (Not so much.) We would love to send snail mail (holiday cards, catalogs, etc.) to folks already on our list. Let's move it forward a little faster and make LinkdIn more useful and not gimmicky. (We have a billion blogs.)
Andy Feb 28, 2008
Where is the Company News feature? I don't see it on my page or profile, can't find a setting for it, and it doesn't appear in the FAQ or Help section.
Johan Feb 28, 2008
Hi Elliot, thank you for this new design, but are translations planned? It would be great to translate LinkedIn into other native languages such as French, Spanish or German.. No? By the way, if it is already done, I don't see where is the switch...
Maricel Quesada Jara Feb 28, 2008
I think the new interface is great, i like the colors, the distribution and how the navigation is now handled.
I just have a couple suggestions/requests:
1. Could you make the News section as a customizable module? It takes a lot of pace from the main frame in the home page and not everybody is interested in the news, so it would be good to have it like an optional feature.
2. In the Home page there is a video displaying all time, it cannot be stopped by the user, but if you already saw it, why do you have to see it again every time you go to the home page. Do you think it's possible to be able to turn it off if you want to?
Thanks and keep up with the good work! :)
Maricel
Bob Davis Feb 28, 2008
Hi,
Nice changes, but would like to have a little more control of editing Contacts. I work on a military installation and get names like: CTR US Davis, perhaps I am just dense but I haven't found a way to fix that...and maybe a delete function, there may be one of those too that I am just missing?
Ric Ward Feb 28, 2008
Perhaps I'm missing the obvious but what use is it to have a page that scrolls of my 1024x768 screen to the right?
This is a real annoyance to put it mildly. And the response I got from support was a none response to my compliant and a message to visit this blog.
As an IT recruiter perhaps I can offer my services to help you find a good web page designer.
Gus Kormeier Feb 28, 2008
I like the changes.
But I miss the "Add Connections" button in the top nav.
OK, now I found it on the left. Maybe the button color is too subtle?
Angela Feb 28, 2008
While the effort at expansion is admirable, I question the usability decision to force Company News at the top of the homepage with no way dismiss or delete this. News about a company and industry I left years ago is beyond irrelevant, and obscures the information that matters to me - what my network is up to.
Lack of searching for groups is also a bit confounding.
Randy Kolb Feb 28, 2008
Please! Make the news 'non-widget' *go away*! Please!
This feature is so blasted annoying, I can hardly believe it's still there. Who thought this was a good idea? It's like spam in a portlet. (spamlet?)
Matt Feb 28, 2008
For the record, I really like the new design. Kudos.
BUG: When I go to confirm the edits in my "Additional Information", I get an error that I haven't entered valid URLs, when in fact I haven't entered any URLs at all. It seems that the default text in the inputs - URL (ex: http://www.site.com) - is causing the error.
Tracey Harris Feb 29, 2008
I like the news feed at the top of the page. I wish it had the following:
1) The date the article was published
2) An option to only show articles released/printed in the last 7 days so I don't have to keep looking at the same headlines everyday for a month.
Thanks,
Tracey
Laurits Nielsen Feb 29, 2008
Hi There
Great work - but I really don't like the Company News. I dont work for Sony BMG any more and I really dont care about news from them and what they are doing now :O)
Please stop this feature (or allow me to remove it) - it is terrible.
Best Regards Laurits
Colin Jensen Feb 29, 2008
I'm going to trust business advice from a Mac user? :)(referring to the video)
Craig Feb 29, 2008
Im not convinced on the new design, the previous one was far superior and followed a user centric design approach where all the relevant information could be found easily and was very intuitive. This UI although not in any way bad seems to have gone backwards, some key features such as seeing who searched for you and viewed your profile is gone or i just cant find it - which is kind of my point. Even areas such as tabbed navigation has been replaced which most people are very familiar with. Im not trying to be overly negative as i believe this is a fantastic product and service but sometimes trying to fix something which was is not broken usually ends up worse off.
Thanks
Karen Feb 29, 2008
The new design is nice, but I agree with previous posts -- get rid of the news section or at least make it a widget so I could turn it off. I don't care about news from a company I worked for 14 years ago. I also would like to be able to get rid of the video window. It's too distracting and has information that's irrelevant to me. Thanks.
Pierre Boucher Feb 29, 2008
Please, get rid of the news section or move it down. It cannot be the first thing I see on my page as it is news from a company I don't work for anymore...
Nick Dellamaggiore Feb 29, 2008
@Karen, Laurits, Randy, Stefan, Angela, Paul
We understand your frustrations with the news feature and I just want to let you know that we are listening and we're working hard to improve the experience.
Addressing your individual concerns:
1. That fact that you're seeing news for your past companies is a bug. It will be resolved in the coming week.
2. For those who don't want news, we're going to enable these users to turn off the feature on their home page
3. Regarding timeliness, we're going to be improving our relevancy/sorting next week.
4. We're working on ways for you to customize your news feed. Stay tuned!
Thanks for using LinkedIn!
Wayne Mansfield Feb 29, 2008
LI.. LI... LI... please fix the feature about my network. All that shows up now is this "nonsense":
Network Statistics
To get the full power of LinkedIn, invite your friends and colleagues to join your network. Those friends and colleagues can introduce you to thousands of professionals.
Willard Dawson Feb 29, 2008
Please reinstate the Colleague search feature under "My Contacts." I enjoyed that immensely in the past. Even if I did invite only a small fraction of my current and former colleagues, it made searching for them much easier than using the People search feature and re-entering the company name to find new LinkedIn members.
On the other hand, I did notice that folks whom I disregarded with "I don't know any of these people" (obviously paraphrased from the actual button label) would soon reappear in the list. So, perhaps the Colleague search feature was broken beyond repair?
Interested in learning more about the rationale for not including it in the new view...
Gaetan Dhont Mar 1, 2008
OK, fuzz and focus seems about the news section and slowness for loading the pages. I'm probably going to set a different tone to the comments added so far.
I notice that recent/not-so-recent features added in LinkedIn drive more LinkedIn to be like other *social* network rather than to continue the initial wave of *professional* network: photo, daily changes network update, increase of flashy adverts, news section, widgets, etc, etc..., the new design itself.
More and more when I open LinkedIn I have the feeling to connect to a social network of any kind, say Facebook (to use a major actor) with a maniac approach of tracking changes, interactions of every second, ways of consented voyeurism.
Less and less I feel I'm connecting to a tool that is aiming at Professional network and can be of use for my professional live. So If LinkedIn loose that angle of the social network tool panel : the professional angle, LinkedIn is certainly not place as the top players rank on the market for social network tools. Keep aiming at the professional angle as a focus to drive your value as a social network tool. This is why many professionals to prefer LinkedIn from all the others.
Gary Mar 1, 2008
I agree with Paul. Dump the news, or at least allow us to control what is visable. Right now, mine shows a company I no longer work for, and don't care about. I liked the old home page much better.
Paul Mar 4, 2008
Hello Elliot,
it's good to see LinkedIN keeps improving.
I would like to suggest some areas where I would love to see more improvement in the not to distant future.
Especially LinkedIn groups could use some work.
Please make it possible to search for existing groups and please make more networking possibilities for within groups. Especially the possibility to have a shared space, like a forum or message board for your group sounds like a good addition.
In short, please increase the functionality of LI groups.
Frank Mandix [LION] Mar 4, 2008
Hello,
First let me draw your attention to two questions I have asked, that have had a lot of attention as well. The first is "What do you think about the new design of Linked In ?" (http://www.linkedin.com/answers/using-linkedIn/ULI/181755-2146130) and then "Would you have preferred added functionality in LinkedIn over the new design changes ?" (http://www.linkedin.com/answers/using-linkedIn/ULI/181755-2146130).
The new design
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The new design is great. The only downside I can find is that you have less space on the screen for whatever it is you are looking at. My main complaint about the new design is that it is slow or slower than the old one. This is really a nuisance and many have made the same comment in their answers to my questions.
Functionality vs Design
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I am sure you have spent quite some time on the new design and made a decision on how much new functionality you should add. You have added some small changes, which are OK and good, but in my mind you should have spend it on improving functionality instead. This is also the opinion of the majority of the answers to the second of my questions.
The way ahead
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It is very positive to have a change in LI and see that you are committed to improve, enhance and develop LI.
In the future I would like to see us, the LI users, involved in the process. There are lots of good ideas from LI power users. I would be happy to be part of such a change.
Frank Mandix
George Matthews Mar 4, 2008
Question: in SanFrancisco there is a school called Learn It that teaches people how to use different software programs such as Outlook, MS Word, Excel etc. Is there any chance you can see if they will teach people how to use LinkedIn? I suspect if you do a survey of users you will find the great majority of people use only a very small portion because (in my humble opinion) it is a very confusing site to navigate. Thanks
Pablo Mar 4, 2008
Excellent design. Congratulations!
Caroline Mills Mar 5, 2008
Seems like nobody likes the news feature much, I hope Linked In are listening. I certainly don't want my news headlined with "Heidrick & Struggles News" (a) it isn't, it's general news and (b) I left there in 2000. Shame, as this makes Linked In look out of touch. I'd much rather have news about my network as the first thing on the page.There should be an option to change this, or just dump the feature.
Jop Quirindongo Mar 5, 2008
Good! But I would like to be able to remove the news module
Elaine Mar 5, 2008
Please let us choose wether or not to have "News". Mine comes up with a company I haven't worked for since 2001 - how is that relevant to me now?
New page is OK, but what makes it better than the old one?
peter lindemann Mar 5, 2008
Just to repeat what has already been said, remove company news, or make in volentary, old news of companys left, is OBSOLETE! greetings from Denmark.
chuck Mar 5, 2008
if we wanted facebook, we'd use facebook.
Linked in is going in a wrong direction here.
i like the current page, not this new format.
Subhashish Paul Mar 5, 2008
Hi Elliot,
I like the new look of Linkedin, All points to you for great work done!
However there's one feature you could look at adding. I have a group at Linkedin. Unfortunately I do not have any method by which I can send a mail to all for the purpose of making announcements. It would be great if group owners could be given a feature wherein they could send a message to all members of that group.
Thanks & regards,
Subhashish Paul
Robert Lakin Mar 6, 2008
Like the changes, but wondering if it's possible to change the "news" widget that's front and center?
Thanks!
Jeroen Mar 6, 2008
takes a little getting used to...but overal happy
please don't feature bomb it into a (professional) facebook
I loved linkedin for its simplicity clean interface, no nonsense. Please keep the focus on the professional audience and user. i.e. networking, knowledge sharing etc... not so much "social" networking
keep up the good work
Ganesh Nalawade Mar 6, 2008
Nice design, Congratulations !
I love the way Linkedin used color combination. Overall I would rate 9/10.
Andrew Okunev Mar 6, 2008
1) Slow as hell (I'm using Opera).
2) The emphasis in LinkedIn has always been on people search - the search box was always in the very middle. Now it is moved to the right top corner, which is I think a questionable decision.
Andrew Okunev Mar 6, 2008
Sorry, forgot to add. I just didn't notice what's new. I.e. what's the buzz is about. Nothing has really changed - I mean in my use patterns.
Didier Clairet Mar 6, 2008
I find the company news section at the top of the home page extremely irritating. The news that are shown there have nothing whatsoever to do with my company. As it is only a small company in which only two people are LinkedIn members, I don't see how LinkedIn could know which news are relevant to us anyway! Similarly, the front page keeps on telling me that new colleagues have just joined LinkedIn, and those people are complete strangers who presumably appear there only because they are working / have worked for a company with a vaguely similar name. I would very much appreciate it if all this was removed or made optional.
John Bridges Mar 6, 2008
Hi Elliot,
How do we see how many contacts we have in our direct network? That was very useful before..plse let us do that!
Kind regards,
John
Chris Mar 6, 2008
I don't come to Linnkin for news so I wish I could remove it, though Linkin is probably getting paid by Intel for it. I also liked the old Who has viewed your profile which has gone away. Overall I preferred the old set up.
Victor Polyushko Mar 6, 2008
Elliot,
I would start with simplifying and standardizing fonts and links. Look at the screen shot I made here
http://5pixels.com/misc/linkedin.gif
1)Button styles are not consistent..why not make them the same color everywhere..is there any system (division of functionality) behind different button styles? you have at least 4 different button styles on one page. I am confused!!
2) Link styles.... On one page you have 8 different font variations for the links (!). Rule of thumb - if you want to make very intuitive navigation, print out your web page and see if you can detect which text is linked and which one is not.. do not make visitors roam around your website with a mouse in the search of links. They should be able to SEE them.
When you have a website that needs to display tons of information, you have to make everything simple and
consistent. I would select 3 link styles and one max 2 button styles.
If you are interested, I can make more suggestions.
Hope they help :-)
Rob Scott Mar 8, 2008
I'm with Paul. I am not that interested in company news. Especially, since the company that Linked in has identified as HDS is not the same HDS that I worked for. Therefore, the news is irrelevant to me. Even if it was however, I don't want company news to predominate my page. Personally, I am most interested in who has been looking at my profile.
Robin Mar 8, 2008
Elliot, It looks much smarter, so thanks for that.
However, I, and apparently many others, would like to be able to customise what we see on ALL parts of the home page. I certainly don't want company news, especially when LinkedIn chooses a company I haven't worked for since the 1980's. More than that, though, I would like to be able to click on ANY update item to show I've noted it and to make it go away. Reading for weeks on end that someone has a new photo is driving me crazy. And all these new items (reading this, working on that) is just making the home page clutter worse. I like to keep my desk clear, and I'd like to do the same with the home page; instead LinkedIn is just piling up an in-tray mainly of junk which I can't empty.
On another topic, the pop-ups seem to be most erratic. They hardly ever link to the person where the cursor actually is - gremlins?
Plus, on an even tinier scale, the sidebar on the left isn't wide enough for my surname to sit beside the photo. My name isn't that long. Moving the name below the photo would give you a greater line length.
Anders Søndergaard Mar 8, 2008
Hi Elliot and LinkedIn staff.
It's a nice design, but i really miss one thing: it would be extremely useful to have rss feeds from the homepage. Users would then be able to subscribe to network updates, new jobs or recently joined colleagues and receive all these notifications in their favourite rss reader.
I am looking forward to that.
Best regards
Sharin Ahmad Mar 8, 2008
Great design - with customizable features! Thats gonna be cool.
A R B Mar 8, 2008
Mr. Shmukler,
Given the quality of the participants on LinkedIn, it seems you've garnered quite a bit of website feedback just over the course of 2 days !
Best,
Rahim
Peter Hewkin Mar 9, 2008
I would also like to see the News change .. mine shows news from a copany I wodered for a decade ago. I would much prefer news from my group .. which publishes new stuff daily.
Ananya Roy Mar 10, 2008
It's a great effort. I do like it. The main aspect is the simplicity. Keep it up :)
Syed Nazir Razik Mar 10, 2008
The design is so refreshing an looks good. Some of the elements of the page are slow to load otherwise looks excellent. Making it more customizable with add intrinsic value to the user. Great Work and congratulations!
Tom Mar 10, 2008
The new interface makes a lot more sense than the previous one. I find it much more useful.
Things I'd like to see added or modified:
Add my frequently viewed profiles so I don't have to keep going to my contact list to find them.
I cannot find where my archived messages are. Is there a link somewhere? It's not apparent wherever it is.
Profile views - please allow me to choose the length of time I'm interested in rather than forcing a time frame. Let users set their own filters, such as past month, week, day, etc. Also, please include which day it was viewed.
Add Company to the search scope.
Keep the improvements coming.
matthieu de heering Mar 10, 2008
I'd like to have a function where I can search the groups directory. Is that coming?
Also a subsection in the profile for (human) languages and IT skills.
Thanks for everything else.
Stephen Dill Mar 13, 2008
A quick question: Groups -- what good are they if you cannot communicate with the group? Many direct to a Website (most of which are not really anything but pages with pointers back to LinkedIn) to do the conversing. Isn't that counterproductive? Why send people away from LinkedIn? This IS social networking, isn't it?
So build a blog interface for Groups soon before more members start busting blood vessels like a friend of mine did trying to understand what he COULD do with groups, besides speak one-on-one (slow, wasteful, so last year!) and you start losing members.
Stephen Dill
Boston MA
Mario Sundar Mar 14, 2008
First off, thanks to those of you who've provided us such positive reviews on the new homepage redesign.
Ok, now to the fun stuff! If I haven't addressed your question directly feel free to email me. The majority of your feedback centered around LinkedIn News and Groups:
1. LinkedIn News
As my colleague Nick Dellamagiore mentions in one of the earlier comments on this thread. We're listening and understand your frustrations around the fact that you're receiving information about earlier companies within News.
I assure you that we're currently working on making LinkedIn News better. So stay tuned for an update in the coming weeks. We'll keep you posted on the blog.
2. LinkedIn Groups
As you know we've made joining and managing groups way easier than before (http://tinyurl.com/2deojm) but understand your expectations around collaboration. We hear you. And the team is working on making your user experience better.
Let me know if there are specific issues you're facing within Groups that you'd like to comment on and I'll redirect your thoughts to the appropriate product manager.
Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for breaking news!
RL Mar 16, 2008
Hi,
I like the changes but cannot seem to find my network statistics anymore. Has this feature been eliminated?
Thank you,
RL
Dave Beveridge Apr 1, 2008
Any chance you can give us an update on the slowness issue? I have drastically reduced my time spent on the site because of it. I like the new direction, but please update us.
Thanks.
Mario Sundar Apr 2, 2008
@dave,
There are no current issues on site slowness. Feel free to ping me anytime on LinkedIn with questions you may have
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariosundar
Also, please note that while leaving comment feel free to link to your LinkedIn Profile, so we know whom we're responding to. At the least, leave your First Name, Last Name. Thanks!
Richard Mansfield Apr 10, 2008
Thanks for soliciting input from your users. We all utilize the service and want it to continue to be a valuable tool for us and our network (thats kinda what it is all about).
The new design for me is confusing and not very intuitive to navigate. I like an earlier recommendation to allow us time (3 to 4 months) to switch between the two versions to get aqauinted with the new design while not losing our effiency in our daily utilization of LinkedIn (probably to late for that now - maybe future upgrades)
Customizable widgets that give US the control over what brings value to OUR page seems to be a consistent message throughtout the feedback comments. I personally like the control that "My Yahoo" gives me to customize what is on my home page.
Chert Apr 18, 2008
It's been a month and a half (Feb 29th>Apr 18th) since you said you were working on the ability to turn the 'news' off - heck, I'd also like to be able to change what company it is showing, the one that I'm doing my current gig with is NOT the one that I'd want to hear news about.. And it picks a 'current' company at random between the two that I have. Not www.traderhut.com - the one that I've had since 2001, but the one that is 7 months old.. Oops there.
In any event, adding another option to the home page options page, and checking the flag when you are about to render it, seems like 1/2 day job, maybe a little more with Testing.. If it is badly designed, then maybe 1-2 days.. (I'm a software Engineer / Project manager so I have a pretty good idea how long these things should take..)
Now, maybe it is in the next release, and that hasn't happened yet.. If so, when is that release planned?
-Chert
Mario Sundar Apr 28, 2008
Thanks @Richard!
I hear you. Design changes may take a while to get used to. Moving forward, we're focused on providing you as much updates as possible via the blog.
@Chert
Once again, I understand your frustrations. As you may have seen via blog posts, the team have provided many feature updates since the feature was launched. The enhancements you request is on the cards.
Also, please bear in mind that given it's a beta feature we're constantly fine-tuning it so you receive only the most appropriate news from your company.